If only there were some sort of technology by which this could be recorded in a widescreen format or horizontal orientation to capture the true beauty of this experience.

Good catch, BUT, there's a reason that tv/movies are LANDSCAPE and not portrait. Why do cell phone camera users not understand that? Turn them horizontal folks!

Good cliffhanger stopping the video when the entire cliff starts to fall down.

That one guy is CRAZY to be that close!

Good to see Bill and Ted are still having excellent adventures 🤣😂🎸🎸🎸

Jeff Spicolli narrates a rock slide. Radical Mr. Hand…radical.

The Paraglider at 2:49 wasn’t expected. Cool 😎

Even though watching this made me feel somewhat anxious, there was still something very naturally soothing and organic about it.

Initially I thought this video was going to be too long and I wouldn't have the patience to watch it all. But then slowly it got really fascinating and I didn't want it to end!!!

The portrait of that landscape was brilliantly filmed.

Very cool to see something that’s been there for thousands of years, crumble in about 10 minutes!

This was incredible to witness. Thank you for sharing.

The person recording this is definitely from San Diego

I’m not here to complain HOW it was filmed. I just came to say I’m SO GLAD IT WAS FILMED!!! Absolutely AMAZING!! Loved it! WOW! Just WOW!!!

This is the craziest event I’ve seen that fully portrays the sheer power of nature. I wish to one day experience something like this in person

That was fascinating - how suddenly all this dirt would pour out of what looked like a hole in the rock. Like the rock was just crust over the dirt rubble. So interesting. 😍

a real cliff hanger at the end

that was more entertaining than anything i've seen from hollywood lately, thanks for posting this. pretty amazing, glad no one was hurt.

I couldn't help but notice that the cliff face became one of concern then unhappiness as it fell apart!

here again & again to re-re watch!! again THANKS 4 SHARING MAN!!!

I’ve been telling this to my friends for years. Californias coast has always been this way it’s natural and it’s how it’s supposed to work. The problem is they built a bunch of houses and businesses right by these cliffs and they’re shocked that it’s eroding. Like it hasn’t been doing that for the thousands of years. The funniest part is I’m not even from San Diego. I’m from Chicago and I’ve just lived out there for 10 years and actually put in some effort to learn about where I moved to. But people who’ve lived there for their entire life don’t understand this.

What a treat! Thanks for sharing.

that was an epic experience to watch here, must've been beyond words to be there. Thank you for the upload.

•sees a landscape• Let's film this in portrait! For real tho cool video!

Incredible how he was able to capture a million year time lapse of the earth's erosion and the cave man running for his life is amazing!!

😊 thank you! That was so fun to watch. I cannot imagine being there in person

Strange this cliff been there dor so long and then it comes down on such a wide range for such long time. Its strange. Loved to see this hill collapsing.

You left us with a cliffhanger man! We wanted to see the mountain fall

It did infact , end , with him saying boom. Truly incredible

Hey there from Colorado! Super intriguing video. I seen a few rock fall, landslide, rock slide etc., thus far. Typically those things occur either with big rains, obviously not going on in the vid or in the spring/fall seasons during the melt/freeze cycles. Also, our mass wasting, as i have seems, tends to be a little movement then a bigger chunk suddenly and that's about it. That slope was going like a fireworks show building up crescendo-like to the finale!

It's amazing how week that rock is there. It turns into crushed stone in seconds. Great footage.

The sound of the rocks tumbling is very soothing.

The laughter and awe toward the end is priceless. Humans are tiny ❤.

Dare I say it....... the camera man never dies!

Fascinating to watch. Stay safe.

I could honestly watch videos like this for hours. Many of us don't get to experience stuff like this first hand. It's incredible. Great video.

This is great, thank you Mark. You can see the rupture line in the beach at the bottom of your picture from the beginning. Then at 9:26 you can start to see the head scarp of the fault near the top left of our picture. The rocks and rubble sliding on the surface is just window dressing. Because at that point the whole mass of the slope fails and rotates, sliding down the head scarp and heaving up at the front of the fault. And to think that this action has happened countless times to form the cliffs along the California beach.

Thank you smfor sharing, our living earth. HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Fascinating! We live near lake erie so its flatter here. Thank you for sharing. Hope everyone was safe during this event.

At 9:54 you can see the sand at the ground/beach level being moved too! 😮 this is an awesome event to witness. I lived at the Oregon coast for nearly 20 years and always wondered how unstable the sandstone is. Well, it’s not!

Wow! So cool! You were right about it ending with a boom! Laughing at "Whoooooooaaaaaa" the whole time. Total surfer, haha.

Stellar, Oscar-winning narration.

Dudes "Whoa!" Is reminiscent of Bill &Ted lol! Great capture ◉⁠‿⁠◉

We were camping recently at a remote beach in Australia, and I went for a solo walk on a 10 mile long desolate beach. I came across a tiny cave which you had to crawl to explore, and I was tempted to do it. However when I looked up, there was a well-eroded vertical wall of compacted sand right above the small cave, about 15 feet high. There was nobody else on the beach as far as I can see. I weighed the risk... if it collapsed while I was inside, I'd be in big trouble, nobody would have known what really happened to me... and I'd maybe become a case study for future archeologists thousands of years later.

You left us with a cliffhanger, LITERALLY…. is there a pt. 2 ? 🙏😀

I was almost ready to nominate him for a Darwin award for best soundtrack and scriptwriting, Natural Events Filming category. But he wised up in the end.

Is there a second part?

135, 56, 128,1,270, 48 AND THEN 9MILLION VIEWS!!!!! You caught that landslide in a bottle sir. CONGRATULATIONS

Those woahs have to be the most Californian surf dude ever hahaha Awesome video

Love the enthusiasm of this guy!!!!! Incredible how the whole things happens in slow motion

Thank you for sharing! Mother Nature is POWERFUL ! Your authentic reactions to what you were experiencing were AWESOME! I hope you have a great life filled with many more adventures.

At the right place, at the right time…thank God nobody was injured…I’ve been in the aftermath of these events and they’re still incredible to witness…a rock the size of a house rolling downhill will definitely get your attention….

Edit: I’ve since seen other videos that capture where this person stopped recording, and it’s clear to me now that there was a landslide occurring the entire time, and these little rockfalls recorded here were just the surface expression of the beginning of rotation at the head of the landslide. The bulk of the cliff was separating extremely slowly from the rest of it, and this caused loose rocks already exposed on the cliff to fall early on. Unfortunately this video cuts off too early. In other videos you can see the toe of the landslide get thrust out in front onto the beach and the whole hillside rotates. Strictly speaking this was a series of rockfalls, not a landslide. A landslide occurs when an entire section of a highland calves off, leaving a headscarp behind. The scarp is actually the top of a kind of normal fault which continues under the bulk of the landslide and flattens out at the bottom (we call this type of curving fault “listric”), until it completely flattens into a sub horizontal detachment. The landslide block rotates long this curving, listric fault, with the top of the landslide in extension, causing incompetent larger pieces of the rotating block to break off into multiple individually competent smaller pieces. Towers the base of the slide the block is in compression, as the hanging wall (the slide) is being thrust over the sub horizontal detachment below it. Usually this part of the slide will completely liquify and result in chaotic, hummocky terrain that can run out very far from the original base of the hill. The front of the slide is called the “toe”. What we’re seeing here are just a series of cascading rockfalls, not a landslide. Although at times you can observe some landslide -like behavior in the talus that gets deposited at the bottom. Towards the end of the video, the videographer says “the whole cliff is moving”. That is an indication of an actual landslide event occurring. Unfortunately, the video cuts off just then. :(

What a beautiful landscape Too bad it wasn’t filmed in landscape

The resolution of this video is awesome!

I could watch that for hours.

“From dust you came, and to dust you will return.” Great video, thanks for posting.

Thanks for the recording. I lived in North San Diego for many years. My children were born and grew up there. We enjoyed the beaches and Torrey Pines. I always listened to the park rangers, lifeguards, and the surfers to keep my kids and I away from the cliffs.

I'm from Pt Loma and haven't been on that ole beach in so many years! Actually I think the last time down was in the late 70s as a teenager scaling the trail down to Blacks LOL! I remember that trail was treacherous way back then full of slippery shale all up and down ...

Really Awesome to watch this natural phenomenon.

I was mesmerised by this, you don’t get to see such a transformation in one’s lifetime. Nature at it’s best

This is the equivalent of trying to watch a game, but having your toddler walk back and forth in front of the television.

2:35 that chad boulder laughing maniacally as it rolled down 😂

This was amazing, what luck they were there to see it! Sharing it

So cool to see. You always hear 'it took millions of years to erode 6 inches in this canyon.' Then we get to watch this.

"Duuuuuude... That was Gnarly!!" Yup, nature at its finest here.

Wow so cool: it looks like the earth is dancing! Thanks for sharing

One of the rare "stay till the end" that pays off.

That was awesome!!! I’ve hiked over there a few times and am not surprised that this collapsed with all the coves that get carved out. Plus the rocks that constantly batter the wall and heavy rain here recently, im surprised we haven’t seen more of this. As a fellow rock hounder… I’m so excited to get over there! I’ve found a few fossilized oysters in that general area a couple years back. 😍

Do you know what shape a tv screen is? Hold the phone the same way!

It's Torey Pines. It happens quite frequently.

"In every outthrust headland, in every curving beach, in every grain of sand, there is the story of the earth." -- Rachel Carson

Makes you wonder what pressure was under that for the whole hill to crumble instead of just 1 part..also the way the darker dirt was forced out of holes

Why did he stop? I wanted to see the end of it!

Lest we forget just how dynamic the coast can be. Thanks for bringing it to us. Cheers.

Torrey pines is one of the most beautiful places in southern California. The trails above those cliffs in the state park are a great place to hike and look out over the ocean from the rugged natural terrain.

Excellent job. Thx for te footage.

Amazing footage thankyou 👍 we do live in a wonderful world.

Chapter One in Aron Ralston's book '127 Hours Between a Rock and a Hard Place' is named "Geologic Time Includes Now". The point being that we rarely notice the small changes in geology occurring around us all the time (a slight shift of a rock in the book). Occasionally we get to see something as fantastic as the mountains crumbling into the sea. Several comments are making fun of the narrative, but I appreciate the fact that he can express himself without a steady stream of swearing. A very cool video indeed.

Wow! Thank you for sharing this. Just wish you could have kept going. I wanted to see that tiny blue flag at the very top come down. 😊

Would love to have seen it all!

Man I wish we could have seen more. The suspense of wanting to see how much was going to come was intense and then you stopped filming! ( for safety I get it) but dang 😮

Did anyone else enjoy this extraordinary landslide far more by turning off the sound? My yearly quota of Oos, Ah's, and Oh Wow Man's were filled within the first 30 seconds.

Excellent work and yeah everyone was too close as far I was concerned. For a little bit I thought I was too close🙃🧸

I remember climbing down those cliffs in the 80s to go surfing.

This was great footage, but it ended with a bit of a cliffhanger..

I could have watched this for a whole afternoon! Right place, right time, Amazing to see how it started, bit here, bit there then bigger rocks and then large sections of cliff

your camera work is like watching a tennis match. LOL.

What an incredible life experience to have been there the exact moment that happened. Thank you for posting and sharing the video

The ways the whole cliffs start to move gives me chills down the spine 😅

W O W !!!! Outside of a powerful volcanic eruption, I have never seen anything like that!! Spectacular!!! Makes you wonder about other Earth features that we thought might have taken forever... when in fact, they happened in a day.... Top notch video! Thank you!!!

Why aren’t there more rocks at the base from previous rock slides?

Not sure why i watched the whole thing but i watch glaciers n iceberg videos too only they make me a bit sad..imagine this happening over even just the last million years hiw much our landscape n geography has changed..thanks for sharing😊

Completely fascinating.. the whole time my brain is just wondering what vibration started this chain of events.. its hypnotizing

There's 10 minutes I'm never getting back!

Dude, so amazing but you left us the biggest cliff hanger.. where's the rest???

The sound, and sheer force, of when even a small slab of mountain releases and slides down, is incredible! It sounds and feels like a mild earthquake, even from a few hundred yards away.

"and to the dust we shall return" ... I've always been fascinated geology and space planetary systems and everything I just find it so fascinating and started a distance learning course with the Open university in the 90s in science geology but 6 months later found out that I was going to be approximately 183 years old before I earned any decent money so change to fashion design LOL it also never ceases to amaze me that humanity create roads and highways and pretty little gardens and villages and everything else and then they are shocked when mother nature decides to turn over in bed ... When in reality we are just a dying piece of rock flying through outer space 😎 Happy Easter to one and all.

Amazing occurrence. Amazing video! Thank you! Glad nobody got hurt.

Landscape mode dude!!!